Guildford, UK
SSTL congratulates the FedSat Team in Adelaide on their successful mission and is proud to have assisted in the Australian microsatellite project. SIL engineers, now employed at SSTL, were responsible for much of the design of the 50cm cube microsatellite, working on the project under a contract from the Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems (CRCSS).
SSTL, at the Surrey Space Centre, UK, provided technical support to the Australian team and manufactured a number of subsystems, including the spacecraftís four solar panels. Completion of the spacecraft primary structure was carried out at SSTL, as well as the tuning of the S-Band receivers, transmitters and duplexer units, all of which were designed and built at SIL.
FedSat was launched into an 800km low Earth orbit onboard a Japanese National Space Development Agency HIIA launch vehicle on 14 December 2002. The satellite is being used to conduct a number of science, communications, remote sensing and engineering experiments and is being controlled from the CRCSS ground station in Adelaide.
Further information from:
Audrey Nice
Press Officer
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
Surrey Space Centre
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey GU2 7XH
Tel: 01483 689278
Fax: 01483 689503
Email: a.nice@sstl.co.uk
and from CRCSS at: www.crcss.csiro.au
